SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) – The maker of Nutri-Grain bars and Frosted Mini-Wheats must answer a legal challenge in federal court in San Jose, California. The challenge says Kellogg’s breakfast cereals are unhealthy and contribute to obesity and disease because they are laced with extra sugar. A 64-page ruling has been issued by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. Judge Koh granted in part and denied in part Kellogg’s motion to dismiss a class action claiming several of its cereals and breakfast bars are labeled as healthy when they contain enough sugar to seriously compromise the health of people who eat it regularly.
Plaintiff Stephen Hadley says he has eaten Kellogg’s products in the morning for several years, believing that he was eating healthy options. However, he claims he just recently discovered that the amount of sugar the company puts in its products puts him at great risk of contracting diseases related to excessive consumption of sugary foods.
Diseases that can be caused by the excess sugar in Kellogg's products include: metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, obesity, inflammation, high cholesterol, hypertension, Alzheimer’s disease, and some cancers.
“The court finds that the ‘nutritious,’ “essential nutrients,” and ‘wholesome’ statements cannot be dismissed as puffery in the instant motion to dismiss,” Judge Koh wrote.
Bottom-line: take a look at the full list of ingredients in a Nutri-Grain bar. Half the ingredients are sugars of some sort. That other half of the ingredients are manufactured chemical crap.
Simples rules:
1) If something tastes like a chocolate bar, it probably isn't healthy. Unless it is a real to goodness dark chocolate bar, which does have some health benefits when consumed in moderation
2) If the ingredient list is longer than your arm and contains 10+ different chemicals that you can't pronounce, don't assume it is healthy. Assume it is unhealthy.
3) If you want a healthy snack bar, look for an ingredient list not longer than 5 or 6 ingredients. You should be able to pronounce every single ingredient and every single ingredient should be healthy in it's own right.
4) If the food was manufactured and then packaged in a cardboard box, there is a high probability it is not healthy. Don't buy food in cardboard boxes, and then you won't eat food from cardboard boxes (and slowly kill yourself)
Many of America's biggest food companies have morphed into a new strange animals that sell "food products" that can be very damaging to your health in the long term. The "foods" they manufacture and sell can kill you.
Stay away from buying any type of "processed food" sold in cardboard boxes. The large corporate so-called food producers aren't selling food that is anything like what your ancestors ate and thrived on for the last 100 centuries. They are selling manufactured chemical crap laced with up to 40% sugar content that will slowly, and then quickly and suddenly at the end, kill you.
Shop around the edges of the grocery store. Buy as little as possible from the center aisles - where they stock all the cardboard boxes with the manufactured poisons and toxins that your body can't process.
Do you find these comments inflammatory and too extreme?
Let me close then with the list of diseases that are alleged caused by excessively sugary manufactured foods, such as Kellogg's Nutri-Grain bars as exhibit one. Kellogg's interest in getting you to buy (and presumably eat) foods that will kill you is more than obscene.
Diseases that can be caused by the excess sugar in Kellogg's products include: metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, obesity, inflammation, high cholesterol, hypertension, Alzheimer’s disease, and some cancers.
Please upvote if this was a wake-up call to get the hell out of the center aisles in your grocery store.
Stop buying the manufactured poisons and toxins that the behemoths in American food industry are peddling.
STEEM On!!
DaveB
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2016/04/26/unhealthiest-breakfast-cereal-bars.html
https://www.courthousenews.com/kellogg-cant-duck-class-action-cereal-labels/
even simpler rule.
the only thing that should be cooked is meat/fish/fowl.
everything else should be eaten raw.
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Nutri-grain bars, even eaten raw and uncooked, are going to be unhealthy
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that's silly.
nutri-grain bars are processed food. ...by defnition they've been cooked.
there is no such thing as a raw one.
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Good point.
I've been so brain washed by Kellogg's that default thought is they are natural granola bars. Which is of course nonsense.
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Good point.
I've been conditioned for too long to think of Nutri-Grain bars as a sort of natural granola bar.
Which of course is a gross mistake
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Thank you @davebrewer, your article sounds like a warning, I learned a lot about these products and will now be cautious!
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Careful what you put in your body
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Yeah it's a serious problem, 3/4th of the grocery store is filled with sugary. People tend to overlook it but on the long term it kills you... I noticed you stated the diseases caused by Kelloggs twice, I assume that was on purpose ;)
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I repeated for emphasis. Thanks for noticing
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That's approximately 7.3 teaspoons of sugar per bar! They really pack it in there.
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Lot of sugar, not healthy
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Aside from all the unpronouncible ingredients, the thing I avoid most is fructose. Other natural sugars from fruit can be digested by the body and, at least half, can be burned off as energy. Fructose can not be burned off by the body and is only turned into fat. This sugar is in EVERYTHING! just take a look at the ingredients on a loaf of bread, yogurt, or juice container next time your at the grocery store. Fructose is everywhere and in nearly everything now. If you make an effort to avoid it, it is really hard when you start. But, after a little while you begin to identify what is avoidable without having to look.
Some companies are starting to changege, though. I noticed McCain pizza pockets now contain only whole, pronouncable ingredients. If we all start avoiding these toxic ingredients the companies will change. But not until we tell them to using our wallet.
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Fructose is one of the worse sugars. All ingredients ending in "ose" are sugars to be avoided.
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WoW, can't say i'm surprise...but this is definitely sad!
Sugar seems to be the root to many health and mental problems.
Check this science breakthrough ...sugar liked to the tipping of Alzheimer...shocking!!
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-sugar-link-alzheimer-disease-revealed.html
Make sure to check out my blog for more.
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Interesting article. Would explain why we see increasing rate of Alzheimers
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Wouldn't that be true for about all fast foods?
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Fast food is in general not healthy. But sugar is not always the main issue in fast food
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This is ridlicious , I feel like companies just mess around with people's life . They just want to make money and don't really care about people's well being
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Dont trust the large "food" companies
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waw didnt know that!
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you really need some health and exercise
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I think foods certified by fsaai are healthy . What you say
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I don't know anything about fsaai. Can't comment
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I agree regarding shopping around the edges of the grocery store and cutting sugar out of your diet. I have been doing a lot of research on diet and health for the past 5 years and it seems that the many of the chronic diseases that people are suffering from can be helped by cutting out sugar, flour and processed foods. Soy and corn are also problematic foods because of the how they are grown and processed. The hardest part is getting people to change their habits, prepare their own foods and to appreciate feeling better as opposed to grabbing the convenience foods. Thanks for posting.
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Ok not eating that anymore
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Wow! I also often ate Kellogg flakes for breakfast, and also thought that it was a healthy food :(
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But… but… the FDA said it was OK. Dah ha ha ha. Monsanto has them in his back pocket. IIRC there were some Monsanto people placed in very important positions in the FDA.
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This isn't a GMO issue, this is a food full of sugars and chemicals issue.
GMO is a separate topic. Also worth discussion and concern
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I agree. What I was trying to get across is the FDA is a bunch of crap that allows crap to be put on our store shelves that they don't even bother looking into. Isn't that what they are suppose to do??
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Don't ever touch big corporation foods full of toxins, absolutely disgraceful
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Good topic, Kelloggs is just a small arm of the giants like Monsanto and Ajinomoto who are systematically poisoning the food supply.
Like Kelloggs they are very sneaky about it.
Ajinomoto has been lobbying to add Aspartame to milk products without listing it as an ingredient.
Dangerous and addictive neurotoxins like Aspartame and MSG are pervasive in the food supply and in many products very cleverly hidden.
Anyway keep on keeping on.
Cheers, A.
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Monsanto sales in 2016 were $13 billion. Kellogg's sales in 2016 were $13 billion.
There is no "small arm" going on. They are the same size when measured by revenue.
Monsanto is 2.5X as large when measured by market cap.
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Very nice research on the disease caused by the excess sugar @davebrewer
It did you think that court has to retain and order to correct its composition
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that was really shocking for me to know :O
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My rule of thumb is the more funny sounding ingredient it has the more i will avoid it. Nothing processed can be good these days.
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@davebrewer its good to read this post but there are all the product is which harmful chemicals are present but we can not predict it about healthy or not. And its very nice to read the diseased caused by the excess sugar and its nice that it cause alzheimer too
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that is kinda bad news
cheating with public that is not appreciable
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Great post @davebrewer!
Upvoted and resteemed
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